It became probably most covered song in recording history.
"Yesterday" has been described as a spare, haunting song of lost love.
It was written and sung perfectly by the young Paul McCartney.
The second verse lyrics are known the world over:
"Suddenly
I'm not half the man I used to be
There's a shadow hanging over me
Oh, yesterday came suddenly..."
McCartney may have been describing what it feels like to be cut down in size by love gone wrong, but those words resonate for many men at least TWICE the age McCartney was when he penned them.
This is because for most men a profound physical and mental change sets in around the age of 50 years. One that has been slowly building for at least a decade. Like a rising swell that is easy to ignore for the longest time, until it finally sweeps you off your feet and suddenly you are swimming for your life.
That is the way a LOT of men feel when it happens.
The medical establishment likes to call it "andropause" - the umbrella term for the symptoms that can loosely, but accurately, be described as feeling like you are half the man you used to be. You'll find a lot more about what it feels like to be a man suffering from andropause here:
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A BIG part of the problem is the male sex hormone testosterone. Or more, exactly, the lack of it in older men.
Testosterone is basically like the ON switch for guys. It gets them fired up, first around the age of puberty when it kicks off a number of physical and psychological changes that transform a boy into a man, and then for all the years that follow when he can be said to be in his physical prime.
But as the years roll on and the body slowly loses its efficiency, the hormone begins to drop off steadily. Until such time as its loss can no longer be ignored.For many men the drop off can be steep, and the consequences somewhat unforgiving. Loss of the ability to perform sexually at full capacity is just one of the more obvious side effects of low testosterone. You know when it is happening, and so does your partner.
Yes, the blue pill can help with performance issues. But it will not fix all the other problems that tend to accompany this condition. Depression. Loss of bodily strength as muscle wanes. Loss of drive to the point where sitting on the couch and staring at the TV actually seems preferable to the other activities that used to keep you busy and engaged with other people.
Try telling your boss that your productivity may not be what it used to be but is completely inline with your waning testosterone levels and you'll likely find yourself having to redraft your resume.
No, being half the man you used to be can be a HUGE problem for middle-aged men. If any of this sounds at all familiar to you then you know just how important it is to get on top of the issue before it whittles you down to the point where you just don't care one way or the other.
Because at that point, you're toast. But if that sounds totally unacceptable to you, and hopefully for your sake it does, there is always this:
Here's how to be ALL the man you can be...
If you want to turn your life around and reclaim the part of it that seems to have been lost, this is how you get started with it.
